Word: cosmopolitan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cosmopolitan...
...Author. Mrs. Edith Wharton (née Jones of New York), a vigorous lady of 63, seldom leaves the cosmopolitan stream of charming and distinguished people constantly passing through her villa at Hyères on the Mediterranean and her house in Paris. Since 1899, she has been known as the most apt pupil Novelist Henry James ever had-a pupil with a score of polished books to her credit, including one American masterpiece, Ethan Frame...
...days of the happy and cosmopolitan Jubilee are gone forever. It is impossible at present to effect an entrance without a birth certificate, a marriage license, or a writ of habeas corpus. Freshmen themselves can't get in. The rules have become so rigid that every year a small crime wave sweeps over Cambridge at Jubilee time. The following incidents were the result of last Friday's festivities...
Said persons appreciative of Editor Crowninshield: "How nice of a busy, well-bred cosmopolitan man like that to become an active figure instead of just an adornment in U. S. society...
Irvin S. Cobb, Standing Room Only. Editor Ray Long. Cosmopolitan...